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A study conducted in the Azores on clouds and aerosols has found that new particles can seed the information from the marine boundary layer.
That is the atmosphere up to about one kilometer above the earth s surface. Even on the open ocean where precursor gas concentration was expected to be low.
(Photo : Magda Ehlers)
The Study
Tiny aerosol particles that seed the information of clouds can form out of nothing over the open ocean, a new atmospheric study over the Eastern North Atlantic has revealed.
The formation of the new particles occurs when sunlight reacts with molecules of trace gases in the marine boundary layer. That is the atmosphere within the first kilometer above the earth s surface.